Literary devices Creative

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Literary Devices

Goals 

After this lesson you will recognise the following literary devices: 

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. personification
4. onomatopoeia
5. oxymoron
6. hyperbole 
7. alliteration
8. irony 

Let's get started

Create 5 groups of 4 pupils

You need one laptop per group (for now)

“He was sweating like a racehorse.”

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron?

When a word’s vocalization imitates a natural sound, as can be heard in the words murmur, buzz, and pop, what do we call that device?

1. simile
2. metaphor
3. onomatopoeia
4. hyperbole

"Purple puppies like playing on the playground." This is an example of

1. personification
2. alliteration
3. onomatopoeia
4. oxymoron

Look at the following cartoon

The cartoon is an example of...

1. simile
2. personification
3. symbol
4. hyperbole

The irony is when an event or response occurs that is the _________ of what is expected.

1. opposite
2. similar
3. related to
4. quite similar

Foreshadowing is when we learn what will happen in the ______

1. past
2. present
3. never
4. future

this sentence is an example of:
"Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name".

1. oxymoron
2. onomatopoeia
3. personification
4. simile

these pictures are all 

examples of ...

the pictures shown before were all examples of

1. oxymoron
2. personication
3. metaphor
4. simile

"Life is a highway".

1. metaphor
2. simile

Assignment: Examples

Search for an example of the following literary devices .  For each provide the following: 1. the definition of the term (in Dutch), 2 an example, 3 explanation of where in the text it can be found AND what effect it has on the reader.

simile                                                          metaphor                                    personification

                            onomatopoeia                                          oxymoron

hyperbole                                                alliteration                                          irony 

Review

Which texts did you choose,

choose one to demonstrate to the class,

Upload all you info to the teams folder 'Literary devices'

I now have a greater understanding or literary devices.

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